infrastructure -
Security - closed environment, teachers trained, scaffold for students to learn how to exist in virtual world, monitors who track the discussions and send reports to the classroom teacher about possible infractions, and/or exemplary behavior so classroom teacher might have discussions with students about virtual discussions
Values - based on values
Responsibility - students can be involved in oversight of, or review of content and interactions
Community - can become self-moderating group, students counsel other students about boundaries and limitations of environment
cannot simply block everything do avoid dealing with the real problem of digital bullying and harassment, we must be active in teaching the skills needed to be digital citizens, to try to make people realize that there is a real person on the other end of the digital conversation.
study out that shows that students who exhibit risky behavior attend schools that block sites, versus less students involved in risky behavior who attend schools that do not block social sites
- take parents on virtual field trip of the virtual environments
SESSION 1 Monday 8:30 - 9:30
Digital Literacy & Citizenship - Online Community Building for Self- Sustaining
- Anne Coller, Vicki Davis, Marianne Malmstrom, Bron Stuckey
http://www.questatmantis.org
- virtual world, rpg, level up by completion of curriculum tasks
infrastructure -
Security - closed environment, teachers trained, scaffold for students to learn how to exist in virtual world, monitors who track the discussions and send reports to the classroom teacher about possible infractions, and/or exemplary behavior so classroom teacher might have discussions with students about virtual discussions
Values - based on values
Responsibility - students can be involved in oversight of, or review of content and interactions
Community - can become self-moderating group, students counsel other students about boundaries and limitations of environment
Super Social Safety
http://supersocialsafety.blogspot.com
http://ow.ly/23Y0T
Virtual Worlds - recommended = Moshi Monsters, Fantage, Girl Sense, Club Penguin, Woogi World, Hubba Bubba, Poptropica
not recommended = boom bang
http://www.reactiongrid.com
cannot simply block everything do avoid dealing with the real problem of digital bullying and harassment, we must be active in teaching the skills needed to be digital citizens, to try to make people realize that there is a real person on the other end of the digital conversation.
study out that shows that students who exhibit risky behavior attend schools that block sites, versus less students involved in risky behavior who attend schools that do not block social sites
- take parents on virtual field trip of the virtual environments
EXHIBIT HALL - visit Elumination booth, visit Promethean booth, PLATO booth,
SESSION 3 - 12:30-1:30 - Dissecting the 21st Century Teacher
http://www.skoodat.com
what does it mean to be a 21st century educator? collaboration, innovation,
SESSION 4 - 2:00 - 3:00 - GAMES, Simulations, & Virtual Environments
http://virtualassessment.org
student takes on identity of a scientist
students complete quests/tasks
tons of information gathered by system about what/how/why the student did what they did
TUESDAY 6-29-10
NO SESSIONS ATTENDED TODAY
spent day going through the expo and visiting with 50+ booth presenters
WEDNESDAY 6-30-10
sessions
Math Tools 2.0 - Math 4 Keeps 8:30 - 9:30
Tom Lehrer "New Math" song and videoDan Meyer
http://blog.mrmeyer.com
http://small-changes-big-returns.wikispaces.com/
http://www.mangahigh.com
http://www.brightstorm.com
http://www.squidoo.com
http://www.wix.com
http://www.twiddla.com onine interactive whiteboard
http://www.twiducate.com
SESSION 10:30 - 11:30
Google: 25 Things You Did Not Know It Could Dohttp://www.toolsfortheclassroom.com/
http://www.drhowie.com/
Dr. Howie DiBlasi
presentation is on his site
SESSION 12:00 - 1:00
60 Open Source programs for Educaiton in 60 Min.
Revolution Linux
Benoit des Ligneris PhD, CEO
http://openceo.blogspot.com/
http://www.geogebra.org/cms/
http://www.edubuntu.com/Download
http://www.revolutionlinux.com/?lang=en
http://go-oo.org/
http://edu.kde.org/
http://www.scilab.org/